alt Hacker NewsThis permission is so weirdly named and scary, and the applications never tell you why they're requesting it... on iOS it would be against the developer guidelines...
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cyberax • today at 4:15 AM
Yep. MacOS is against the iOS guidelines.
Because it's a macOS dialog, not something that is controlled by applications.
BTW, what's even worse is that this permission is utterly useless. A malicious app can just use the system `curl` to bypass it.
Meanwhile, the genuinely scary "Accessibility" permissions that allow spying over the entire system are granted once and never need to be re-approved.